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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女竹心日 (VHPA), four-corner 42464, composition)

  1. get married
  2. marriage, wedding

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mrɯn
*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
*mrɯn
*mrɯnʔ
*mrɯnʔ
*hmɯːn
*hmɯːn
*hmɯːn
*hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
*hmɯːn
*hmɯːn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/huən/
Pan
Wuyun
/huon/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwən/
Li
Rong
/xuən/
Wang
Li
/xuən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hūn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ xwon ›
Old
Chinese
/*m̥ˤu[n]/
English marriage

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5530
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hmɯːn/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. marriage

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(hon) (hangeul , revised hon, McCune-Reischauer hon)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hôn)

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